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A bit late, but here are the slides and handout from week 5 of the ‘Get Organized’ series. Week 5 was about budgeting.

For those who attended the series, please send me feedback of the constructive and/or showering-in-praise type. Let me know which sessions you liked (or didn’t), whether or not the structure was useful, what has worked for you, what really didn’t work for you, what you wish I’d covered (or covered more), etc. And if you qualified for those 2 free hours of help, I will be in touch at the end of the month!

For those who didn’t attend, or missed some sessions, if anyone is really interested and would definitely come out to a second offering of the series (perhaps a bit reorganized; probably in June/July), please contact me at laura @ bettertogetherdesign.com.

Here are the resources for weeks 3 and 4 of the Get Organized! series. Next week is the final week – be sure to bring the data you’ve collected from tracking your spending, and your online banking info to set up an account at budgeting site Mint.com!

Here are the slides and handout from Week 2 of the Get Organized! workshop series. Like last week, there are links to additional resources on the last slide.

In Week 1, we talked about Time Management. In Week 2, we focused on the “analyze” and “strategize” phases for organizing your space & stuff. We covered things like the importance of creating distinct “activity zones” within each room and the key components of any organization system:

Next week we’ll explore the third and final phase of organizing (“attack”) a bit more deeply than we hav e so far, and we’ll focus on some specific topics: filing, decluttering/purging, and tracking your stuff.

Bring a pile of papers (or other things) that need sorting. Or a list of the types of papers in your pile.

Bring in an example of something that’s working for you!

You can also keep working on earlier phases of organizing or time management stuff, and there will be an opportunity to check in about your progress so far.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the first ‘Get Organized!’ workshop tonight. For those who couldn’t make it, here are the slides and handout. There are links to additional resources on the last slide. There are also some additional notes below and things to get ready for the next sessions. Read the rest of this entry →